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HistoryJun 05, 2018 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Liblouis vulnerabilities (USN-3669-1)

2018-06-0500:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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It was discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-11410)

It was discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2018-11440)

It was discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-11577).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3669-1. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See 
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered 
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(110322);
  script_version("1.9");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/20");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-11410", "CVE-2018-11440", "CVE-2018-11577");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"3669-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Liblouis vulnerabilities (USN-3669-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"It was discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files. An
attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-11410)

It was discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files. An
attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2018-11440)

It was discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files. An
attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-11577).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3669-1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-11410");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/05/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/06/04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/06/05");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblouis-bin");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblouis-data");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblouis-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblouis14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblouis2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblouis9");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-louis");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-louis");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}

include('debian_package.inc');

if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled') ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/release');
if ( isnull(os_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu');
os_release = chomp(os_release);
if (! ('14.04' >< os_release || '16.04' >< os_release || '18.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 14.04 / 16.04 / 18.04', 'Ubuntu ' + os_release);
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/Debian/dpkg-l') ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Ubuntu', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'liblouis-bin', 'pkgver': '2.5.3-2ubuntu1.3'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'liblouis-data', 'pkgver': '2.5.3-2ubuntu1.3'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'liblouis-dev', 'pkgver': '2.5.3-2ubuntu1.3'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'liblouis2', 'pkgver': '2.5.3-2ubuntu1.3'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'python-louis', 'pkgver': '2.5.3-2ubuntu1.3'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'python3-louis', 'pkgver': '2.5.3-2ubuntu1.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'liblouis-bin', 'pkgver': '2.6.4-2ubuntu0.2'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'liblouis-data', 'pkgver': '2.6.4-2ubuntu0.2'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'liblouis-dev', 'pkgver': '2.6.4-2ubuntu0.2'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'liblouis9', 'pkgver': '2.6.4-2ubuntu0.2'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'python-louis', 'pkgver': '2.6.4-2ubuntu0.2'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'python3-louis', 'pkgver': '2.6.4-2ubuntu0.2'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'liblouis-bin', 'pkgver': '3.5.0-1ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'liblouis-data', 'pkgver': '3.5.0-1ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'liblouis-dev', 'pkgver': '3.5.0-1ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'liblouis14', 'pkgver': '3.5.0-1ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'python-louis', 'pkgver': '3.5.0-1ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'python3-louis', 'pkgver': '3.5.0-1ubuntu0.1'}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var osver = NULL;
  var pkgname = NULL;
  var pkgver = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['osver'])) osver = package_array['osver'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgname'])) pkgname = package_array['pkgname'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgver'])) pkgver = package_array['pkgver'];
  if (osver && pkgname && pkgver) {
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:osver, pkgname:pkgname, pkgver:pkgver)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : ubuntu_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'liblouis-bin / liblouis-data / liblouis-dev / liblouis14 / etc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
canonicalubuntu_linuxliblouis-binp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblouis-bin
canonicalubuntu_linuxliblouis-datap-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblouis-data
canonicalubuntu_linuxliblouis-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblouis-dev
canonicalubuntu_linuxliblouis14p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblouis14
canonicalubuntu_linuxliblouis2p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblouis2
canonicalubuntu_linuxliblouis9p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblouis9
canonicalubuntu_linuxpython-louisp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-louis
canonicalubuntu_linuxpython3-louisp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-louis
canonicalubuntu_linux14.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts
canonicalubuntu_linux16.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts
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